Posts Tagged ‘meta’

It has been six months since my last post. So much has happened since then that I have wanted to tell you about.

And I tried!

Oh, I tried, several times—I have the WordPress drafts to prove it. But somehow anything too large for a tweet ended up a five-page essay with footnotes.1 (I would have written less, but you know how it goes.)

So. Let me be very brief:

I finished my doctoral studies and got my degree. You can read my thesis if such things interest you.

I am still interested in research topics, including distributed systems, security, and social networks. I also continue to maintain my Mac software on the side. These pursuits have taken something of a back seat to the above bullets, however.

Whew.

Now I can start making notes (of the longer-than-140-character variety) again. Thanks, Internet, for your kind indulgence.

But I’ve got a few actual blog posts in the queue, and if I want anyone to attempt to read them, I need to put this damn thing back together. So keep an eye out for a return to readability, but for today enjoy an even-more-eye-assaulting Halloween color scheme.

Sorry for the mess. I’m in the process of upgrading WordPress here on dsandler.org to the latest version, something I haven’t done since 2006.

The code update is done, but the classic “blue bars” design is totally broken (in part because my custom tagging scheme clashes violently with the taxonomy features introduced in WP2.3) so I think I’ll start from scratch.